Goal

Achieving the Dream's Goal: Success for more community college students, especially students of color and low-income students.

Success is defined by the rates at which students:

• Successfully complete remedial or developmental instruction and advance to credit-bearing courses
• Enroll in and successfully complete the initial college-level or gateway courses in subjects such as math and English
• Complete the courses they take with a grade of "C" or better
• Persistence from one term to the next
• Earn a certificate or associate degree

Achieving the Dream's National Reform Network - the nation’s most comprehensive non-governmental reform network for student success in higher education history - has been and will continue to make considerable contributions toward the nation’s goal of increasing the number of Americans with a college certificate or degree with marketplace value within the next decade.